Rarely the appearance of an athlete had raised as much expectation as the return of Simon Biles to Ariake Gymnastics Center, who had abandoned a week before due to a psychosomatic disorder that prevented her from continuing to compete in the team final.
That decision that she assumed and her frankness in explaining her mental causes put in question, again, the alleged invulnerable image of the great champions.
That week is the one that needed Biles to recover the necessary balance and trust to get back on a gymnastics podium.In his state he could only do it in a specility, the balancing bar, where the risks are smaller.The final for which he had classified gave him the opportunity to say goodbye to these games, which were intended to be a party of uninterrupted successes for her, playing an apparatus and recovering confidence in itself.
The few witnesses present in the installation, gymnasts and technicians who had already finished their participation, and the president of the IOC, Thomas Bach, were arranged in front of the equilibrium bar, as millions of spectators have done before television anxious to check theGreat Simone response.
The least on this occasion was its result, a bronze medal that would probably have achieved in the same way if it had not gone through the toughest test of his career.The fundamental thing was to recover a gymnast who has been everything in this sport, the most dominator in history, and who did not deserve to close his career, if that is his intention, with the bitterness of a forced and non -dear withdrawal.
Aplomb
Biles got on the bar without externalizing what he had endured in recent days.On the contrary, with a desire to show yourself as it is competing, determined, with poise.His first triple turning from a foot, a figure called 'wolf' in gymnastic slang, cleared the doubts, his and those of those who watched it, and caused a generalized relief.There was Simone.
The American during her exercise
He did his exercise with an apparent ease, his 'flic-flac' finished in mortal in iron, a mortal far-tothe usual outputs of his in the bar, but the most prudent choice and adjusted to the process through which it has passed.
His one4,000 note was surpassed by the two Chinese representatives, young Nymphs who imposed their high school and their excellent execution in this Cechen Guan (one6 years) and Xijing Tang (one8) apparatus (one8).But this bile podium is so much or more meaning than the innumerable triumphs he has achieved throughout his career.He has reached it beating the worst enemy, which sometimes nests in the minds of athletes and incapacitates them, however great these are.
Bach went down to the track to congratulate and cross a few words with the American.I said what was, what Biles deserved to hear is a gratitude for the way he has managed a situation that has been pending half the world."It has been a very long week, there have been five very long years," summarized everything Biles lived, who declared that he did not expect to achieve this medal."I just wanted to go out and do it for me, and that's what I have done".
Biles, at the exit of the bar in a double dead
Male endings
The Olympic champion of the general contest, the young Japanese Daiki Hashimoto, had only qualified for a final, the fixed bar that closed the competition.He had already demonstrated his skill and confidence in this device playing a letter here the individual title.In the final, candidates were discarded, falling into one of their 'loose'.Hashimoto was the penultimate to compete;He had to overcome the Croatian Tin Srbic (one4,900), world champion in this specialty in 20one7, and the Japanese achieved it with a clean exercise in the chain and execution of his 'loose' (one5,066).The bronze was for the Russian Nikita Nagornyy, who leaves Tokyo with team gold as the main award.
In the parallel the Chinese Jingyuan Zou won with the highest note of the entire artistic gymnastics competition (one6,233).Double world champion (20one7 and 20one8), his mastery of the apparatus in which he seems to be upset is absolute and took more than half a point to the silver medal, the German Lukas Dauser (one5,700).
Classifications
Finals for devices
Men
Parallel
one. Jingyuan Zou (CHN), one6,233; 2. Dauser (ALE), one5,700; 3. Arican (TUS), one5,633; 4. Hao You (CHN), one5,466; 5. Belyavskyi (RUS), one5,200; 6. Mikulak (USA), one5,000; 7. Pakhniuk (UCR), one4,533; 8. Fraser (GBR), one4,500.
Fixed bar
one. Hashimoto (JAP), one5,066; 2. Srbnic(CRO), one4,900; 3, Nagornyi (RUS), one4,533; 4. Malone (USA), one4,200; 5. Bull (AUS), one2,466; 6. Kitazono (JAP), one2,333; 7. Deurloo (HOL), one2,266; 8.KArimi (KAZ), oneone,266.
Women
Balancing bar
one. Guan (CHN), one4,633; 2. Tang (CHN), one4,233; 3. Biles (USA), one4,000; 4. Black (CAN), one3,866; 5. Lee (USA), one3,866; 6. Ashilawa (JAP), one3,733; 7. Saraiva (RA),one3.one33; 8. Urazova (RUS), one2,733.
